staring contest

Noun

Meaning

a game in which two people maintain eye contact for as long as possible, the loser being the one who is the first to blink or look away.

a confrontation between two parties in which neither side is prepared to back down.

Examples

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. Frank Sinatra

Can't be any harder than sitting here and having a staring contest with mortality. Brandon Sanderson

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